Taylor Bobbitt: Ernest, Wrap-up

Working back-stage for The Importance of Being Ernest was kind of uneventful. Ernest is only an 11 member cast, and only three of them has any costume changes, and those people are Jack, Gwendolyn, and Algernon. The maximum that I had to do during the show was use a lint roller on Lady Bracknell’s hem and pin and unpin a hair piece on Gwendolyn.

All in all, I found that it was before the show that was most eventful. I did makeup, did hair, helped with the straightening of costumes, and helped actors when they needed someone whom their lines can bounce off of as they practice. By the way, Dannia Tan should rap for a living, because she has the raw fast-moving language ability of Busta-Rhymes (and Ron Miller, holy crap). Hearing her practice her lines was kind of funny because she would say them so darn fast that you couldn’t comprehend anything she said until it registered about three seconds later. She has a future, I’m tellin’ ya.

That's me in the background helping and stuff

My nose is not big in person. For some reason, I look like that witch from Princess Bride. Look. I participated.

I helped Algernon with his makeup the first time that I came. I applied his eye-liner (which apparently he has trust issues with anything touching his eye except for contacts. That’s probably a hyperbole on his part, but nonetheless) and I curled his eyelashes with Gwendolyn’s lash curler. He said I did a wonderful job, and that I didn’t make him look like a drag queen. Well done, Taylor. Well done.

Dannia (aka, Busta Rhymes)

I also helped Gwendolyn with her blush and bronzer once upon a time during Ernest. I did pretty well, if I do say so myself, and I do say so myself because she said it, too.

I'm in the background helping someone else. By the way, my phone is broken and pictures are a no no. My photos are lost.

I helped the maid with doing all of her make up because she said, and I quote, I don’t know what to do. So, I did what I would normally do with everyday makeup, but with more highlighting and contouring. I did pretty well. She looked cute. Blush does such wonders, I tell ya’. I also did her hair. I twisted it back and did it up in a braided bun. She looked adorable.

In the last show (which was on Saturday) I helped Lady Bracknell with her hem. It was disgusting with dirt, so I brushed it off. By the way, that red and black lint thing not only works magic, but it has arrows on it to tell you which way the lint trapping grain goes so that you can actually trap it. Man, I love figuring out stuff through Dannia.

I have got to say, though. My favorite part of the entire thing was watching from the side. The first time that I had actually seen it from the side was on Wednesday, during the free show. I saw Act III when Lady Bracknell says, “Wheeeeeeeeeere is that BABY?!” I was cracking up on the side of the stage. UGH, she’s so funny.

Another thing that I did for some actors (it was actually only Dannia) was give them a shoulder massage to calm them down. It’s surprising how much she and the other actors were shaking from being on stage. This is funny because they hold their face, but they shake like crazy. Hmmmm. This surprises me.

All in all, it was less pressure and it was fun. I was able to be creative.